Thanks to one batch of imports, the Lada Vesta should be the best-selling car in Cuba for 2017. See the original article here. Even though the Cuban market is open to foreign imports since January 2014, in July of the same year we wondered whether it was the smallest car…
Picture by Teemu R. All rights reserved. * You can see the original article by clicking on the title! * In October 2011 I reported that car purchase was finally legalised in Cuba after over 50 years of tight restrictions country-wide. However at the time I had expressed reservations as to how…
Emgrand EC7 Now that Cuban consumers can purchase a car freely, Chinese manufacturer Geely has shipped a batch of 1,560 cars to the country using all shipping logistics, composed of 1,310 units of the Geely CK and 250 units of the Emgrand EC7. These cars are destined to be used…
Picture by Teemu R. All rights reserved. Historical date today in Cuba: until now only people who bought a car before the 1959 revolution or those who were granted the right to purchase one afterwards for personal or political achievements could actually own their vehicles. From October 1, every Cuban citizen…
Vintage American car in Cuba. Picture by Walter Lo Cascio. All rights reserved. The Cuban car market structure is a fascinating testimony of the country's last 60 years history. Its famous 1950's American cars (60,000 are still in circulation), relics of the pre-revolutionary period, are now outnumbered by over 100,000 Ladas,…